CEO Viewpoint

PROFILING INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS

CEO Viewpoint: Jeffrey Flaks, president & CEO, Hartford HealthCare

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Jeff Flaks, president & CEO, Hartford HealthCare, has spent 22 years helping transform HHC from a single hospital into an award-winning, highly integrated, $8-billion network of 48,000 colleagues at more than 500 locations.

CEO Viewpoint: Mandy Eaton, PhD, President & CEO, Memorial Health

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Mandy Eaton, PhD, president & CEO, Memorial Health is leading the regional health system in a cultural transformation.

CEO Viewpoint: Wendy Horton, PharmD, president & CEO, UVA Health University Medical Center

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Wendy Horton, PharmD, president & CEO of UVA Health University Medical Center is leading the health system and its communities into the future by partnering in the largest Habitat for Humanity project in the nation.

CEO Viewpoint: Mohan Suntha, MD, president & CEO, University of Maryland Medical System

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Mohan Suntha, MD, president & CEO, University of Maryland
Medical System is leading the academic health system to redefine Big Data in healthcare through the Institute for Health Computing.

SI CEO Viewpoint: Imran Andrabi, MD, Froedtert ThedaCare

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Imran Andrabi, MD, president & CEO of Milwaukee-based Froedtert ThedaCare is leading a year-old merger of an urban academic medical system with a community-hospital-based system.

CEO Viewpoint: Joanne Conroy, MD, CEO & President, Dartmouth Health

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Joanne Conroy, MD, CEO & president, Dartmouth Health is leading the academic health system in rural health, from zip-code analysis of rural communities to pioneering the role of community health workers and supporting a parish nursing model.

CEO Viewpoint: Chris Howard President & CEO, Sharp Healthcare

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Chris Howard, President & CEO, Sharp HealthCare is integrating AI into Sharp’s vision to profoundly enhance care delivery, workplace environment and community presence.

CEO Viewpoint: Rob Allen President & CEO, Intermountain Health

In this Executive Viewpoint, read how Rob Allen, president & CEO, Intermountain Health is designing the health system of the future around proactive care and not value-based care.

CEO Viewpoint: Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD, President & CEO, Cleveland Clinic

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD, president & CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, is driving significant investments in digital and AI to lead the $13-billion globally integrated health system into the future.

CAIO Viewpoint: Nigam Shah, Stanford Health Care

In this CAIO Viewpoint, read how Dr. Nigam Shah of Stanford Health Care embodies the cross-functional leader who brings AI to healthcare while ensuring it is useful, fair and reliable.

CEO Viewpoint: Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health Resources

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health Resources, has created one of the best workplaces in the industry while balancing mental health outreach to patients and employees within the rigor of a strong balance sheet.

CEO Viewpoint: Laura S. Kaiser, President & CEO, SSM Health

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how CEO Laura Kaiser and SSM Health are driving innovation across St. Louis-based SSM Health, a $9.3 billion Catholic, not-for-profit health system servicing communities across the Midwest.

SI CEO Viewpoint: Wright Lassiter III, CEO, CommonSpirit Health

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how Wright Lassiter is establishing what he calls “leadership presence” across CommonSpirit’s 140 hospitals, 1,500 care sites and 150,000 employees across 22 states—and how his grandfather’s wisdom about service predicted what’s needed most for the future of public health.

SI CEO Viewpoint: Joseph R. Impicciche, CEO, Ascension

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how CEO Joseph R. Impicciche and Ascension are creating great
experiences for 6.5 million patients as well as 140,000 associates at 2,600 sites of care across 19 states.

Mike Slubowski, President & CEO, Trinity Health

In this CEO Viewpoint, read how president & CEO Mike Slubowski strengthens the Catholic mission of Trinity Health despite the converging crises of cost, workforce and affordability across 25 states and 115,000 colleagues.

Marc Gorelick, MD, President & CEO, Children’s Minnesota

Marc Gorelick, MD, president & CEO, Children’s Minnesota discusses how a children’s health system addresses the workforce crisis, and patient/family engagement.

Marna Borgstrom, CEO, Yale New Haven Health

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Marna Borgstrom, CEO, Yale New Haven Health, to hear the wisdom and insights from a distinguished 40-plus-year career at one of the nation’s leading academic health systems.

Todd LaPorte, CEO, HonorHealth

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Todd LaPorte, CEO of HonorHealth in Scottsdale, Ariz. to find out how a leader goes from a career immersed in finance to one whose mission is the “health and wellbeing of a community.”

Andrea Walsh, President & CEO, HealthPartners

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with Andrea Walsh, President & CEO, HealthPartners, to learn how consumer-governed HealthPartners is making care and coverage simpler and more affordable.

J.P. Gallagher, President & CEO, NorthShore University HealthSystem

Read our CEO Viewpoint interview with J.P. Gallagher, President & CEO, NorthShore University HealthSystem, to learn how NorthShore is “going the last mile” for consumers.

Nancy Howell Agee, President and CEO, Carilion Clinic

Rarely does a healthcare CEO spend her career at the same place she was born. Enter Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Virginia-based Carilion Clinic, who was born in Carilion’s flagship hospital, then called Memorial and Crippled Children’s Hospital in its distinction as the nation’s primary facility for children with polio.

Bill Manns, President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare

“I grew up thinking I wanted to be a physician,” says Bill Manns, who worked in Michigan’s Wayne County morgue as a teenager to gain experience toward that goal. However, [...]

Tim Dentry, President & CEO, Northern Light Health

As a former college wrestler, Tim Dentry exhorts people to “pin COVID-19 to the mat” and “avoid being pinned by the virus.” His folksiness, bred in northern Maryland’s horse country, comes in handy as president and CEO of Northern Light Health, a Brewer, Maine-based 10-hospital system serving the entire state.